January 2011
24 posts
DIY UAV hunts down balloons with firework missiles
*DIY UAV hunts down balloons with firework missiles* Published on Ubergizmo>| shared via feedly While we love games that involve augmented reality, you have to admit reality is where things are at, especially when you’re trying to shoot things. Now some RC enthusiasts have created>a tricopter that is equipped with a fancy weapon that it uses to go around destroying hapless hydrogen-filled...
Tetrometroes | tlclark.com
*Tetrometroes | tlclark.com* Published on Eyebeam reBlog| shared via feedly *This is a project I have been working on during my time at Eyebeam.* Tetrometroes *Tetrometroes* utilizes the strict road system that makes up Manhattan and uses it as a stage for play, creating the world’s largest Tetris board. It is a comment on the mundane uniformity that makes up Manhattan. Unlike older cities...
A book printed through a printing chain made of...
*A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop…* Published on Ben Bashford - Design thinking| shared via feedly A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. xavier antin / Just in Time, or A Short History of Production> Feedly. Feed your mind. http://www.feedly.com »>
Paris metro body heat to help warm building
*Paris metro body heat to help warm building* Published on Innovapedia>| shared via feedly The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city center, the capital’s largest owner of social housing said on Friday. The building, located in the famous rue Beaubourg close to the Pompidou museum, is being renovated in an environmentally...
San Francisco Gets Inter-Bus Stop Multiplayer...
*San Francisco Gets Inter-Bus Stop Multiplayer Gaming* Published on Eyebeam reBlog| shared via feedly San Francisco Gets Inter-Bus Stop Multiplayer Gaming [image: San Francisco Gets Inter-Bus Stop Multiplayer Gaming]Yahoo recently installed huge poster-size touchscreens at 20 San Francisco bus stops, allowing commuters to play online games *against people at other bus stops*. Nothing brings out...
This pocketable computer is more powerful than...
*This pocketable computer is more powerful than your netbook* Published on DVICE | shared via feedly [image: This pocketable computer is more powerful than your netbook] This is a tiny computer. It may be small, but it’s not some crappy thing that sacrifices all usefulness in the name of smaller size: it’s actually got more power than my sad little netbook. Feedly. Feed your mind....
Soldier Spends Own Money to Develop Military...
*Soldier Spends Own Money to Develop Military iPhone App* Published on Switched>| shared via feedly [image: Tactical Nav] Captain Jonathan J. Springer reached into his own pockets to produce the $26,000 needed to develop a new iPhoneapp, one specifically designed for American soldiers battling the Taliban. The 31-year-old soldier worked with programmers to bring his idea of a navigation and...
New iPhone app: Fire Department: It prompts you to...
*New iPhone app: Fire Department: It prompts you to ask if…* Published on Jay Parkinson | shared via feedly New iPhone app: Fire Department : It prompts you to ask if you’ve been trained in CPR and would be willing to help a stranger in the event of an emergency. If you accept this, then the application will take advantage of the iPhone’s location monitoring to get a general sense of...
Twimon, I Choose You: the Fun Twitter iPhone App...
*Twimon, I Choose You: the Fun Twitter iPhone App That Rips Off Pokemon*
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App That Rips Off Pokemon]
This Twitter app is so bonkers, I don't even know where to begin. *deep
breath* Ok, so it has MONSTERS and like POKEMON, your monsters ATTACK your
followers' monsters and...oh god, I miss the days of Twitter SMS. More
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Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data &...
*Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data & Semantic Recipe Search* Published on Food+Tech Connect>| shared via feedly Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller >thinks so. Back in 2009, Feller recognized an opportunity to leverage recommendation engine...
Listening Room Lets You Share Music in Real-Time...
*Listening Room Lets You Share Music in Real-Time Across the Web* Published on Lifehacker| shared via feedly [image: Click here to read Listening Room Lets You Share Music in Real-Time Across the Web] If you’re trying to decide on a background track, wedding reception picks, or other crucial tunes, you don’t have to be in-person to get instant reactions. Listening Room lets anyone...
Biological games
*Biological games* Published on rb.trends | shared via feedly Scientists Create Real-Life Pac-Man Using Microorganisms “The user control the paramecium by just moving the joystick, which is connected to a controller that “controls the polarity of a mild electrical field applied across the fluid chamber, which influences the direction the paramecia move.” I wonder how they make Pac-Mecium turn...
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Brain Controlled Wheelchair
*Brain Controlled Wheelchair* Published on Healthymagination>| shared via feedly A mechanical device that can be controlled simply by human thoughts sounds like something out of a science fiction thriller but it is much closer than you might imagine. Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technologyin Lausanne, Switzerland have developed a robotic wheelchair that operates by a combination of...
Chinese Motorists Are Actually Paying People to...
*Chinese Motorists Are Actually Paying People to Sit in Traffic Jams For Them* Published on Gizmodo| shared via feedly [image: Click here to read Chinese Motorists Are Actually Paying People to Sit in Traffic Jams For Them] I don’t know about you, but I kinda relish getting stuck in a traffic jam. Scoping people out, playing some Angry Birds, finding that perfect Phil Collins...
Next Generation Vending Machine with Touchscreen
*Next Generation Vending Machine with Touchscreen* Published on Popwuping| shared via feedly [image: Next generation touch screen vending machine] Japan introduces next-generation touch-screen vending machines with payment possible with your mobile phone. If you walk through certain JR East stations in Tokyo, you may have seen a huge, gray, Acure vending machine with tall, vertical eyes gazing...
Kindle Lending Club Is a Library of...
*Kindle Lending Club Is a Library of User-Contributed Kindle Ebooks* Published on Lifehacker| shared via feedly [image: Click here to read Kindle Lending Club Is a Library of User-Contributed Kindle Ebooks] Instead of buying new content for your Kindle, Kindle Lending Club lets you search for users willing to lend their Kindle ebooks to anyone with the desire to read. More » Do you feedly?...
iPhone app sends safety alert if you don't...
*iPhone app sends safety alert if you don’t arrive on time* Published on Springwise: Promising new business ideas for entrepreneurial minds > | shared via feedly Among the many new capabilities enabled by mobile technologies, personal safety is perhaps one of the more intriguing. We’ve seen Dutch Onna-onna’s SMS service>alerting customers to icy conditions; then, too,...
Roombas playing Pacman
Ok, this is just plain cool. A Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner. It autonomously navigates through a home and picks up debris from the floor as it travels. Developers of unmanned areial system software have used their knowledge to program Roombas to play Pac-man. Watch the following video to see how it works: http://www.mediabistro.com/thinkmobile/roombas-playing-pac-man_b10100»>
Heterosis – A Kinetic Typeface
*Heterosis – A Kinetic Typeface* Published on flylyf>| shared via feedly Heterosis is a three-dimensional typeface made from plexi-glas and transparent elastic. This kinetic typeface constitutes one of the three typefaces I developed for my Master’s thesis at York University in Toronto. The term heterosis is used within agriculture to describe the increased function and fecundancy that results...
Phone Charging Device Attaches To Shoe To...
*Phone Charging Device Attaches To Shoe To Transform Kinetic Energy Into Electricity* Published on FGadgets| shared via feedly [image: Soledad Martin, Cellphone charger, nanogenerator system] Inspired by the skaters, Argentine designer Soledad Martin has come up with a cellphone charger concept, based on the modern way of transforming movement into electric energy called the “kinetic energy,”...
Instant Cartridge Printer
*Instant Cartridge Printer* Published on FGadgets| shared via feedly [image: Instant-Cartridge-Printer-future-gadget.jpg] You probably fling the depleted cartridge out of your printer or refill it. Well, times are changing and the way we print could too, with disposable printers. Designed by Yuexun Chen and Chia-Chen Hsiao, the Instant Cartridge Printer works differently from the printing...
Using Kinect, MIT Media Lab pulls off...
*Using Kinect, MIT Media Lab pulls off gesture-based web browsing, with more on the horizon* Published on Core77| shared via feedly Whoa-ho! Depth JS, an open-source project run by a quartet of MIT Media Lab guys, has successfully connected Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing technology with Javascript. What does this mean to you and I? It means actual gesture-based web browsing (and...
Pete Philly
*Pete Philly* Published on FWA Site Of The Day | shared via feedly [image: Pete Philly] Momkai and musician Pete Philly harness the power of sharing and work to maintain the audience’s focus by releasing a new track and hi-def super slowmo video every week for 14 weeks. Do you feedly? http://www.feedly.com »»
using old media to bash old media
*using old media to bash old media* Published on Brand Flakes For Breakfast| shared via feedly You have to appreciate the awesomeness of this: Yammeruses an outdoor billboard to illustrate the limitations > of an outdoor billboard. Beautiful. Do you feedly? http://www.feedly.com »»>